Comments on: Sen. Edward M. Kennedyhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/838/sen-edward-m-kennedy/
A place to share your thoughts, criticisms and comments.Tue, 24 Dec 2013 01:58:20 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: mmcdonaldhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/838/sen-edward-m-kennedy/comment-page-3/#comment-18913
Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:00:47 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18913Josie,I think seeing Ted on the cover would be a welcome surprise instead of Obama for the 100th time,about a month or two ago I couldn’t help but notice he was on the cover of almost every magazine.
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Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:46:03 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18910#64, yes, isn’t it fun? You put one comment and get vitriol back. What’s not to like. We can do this till the cows come home or go west or wherever they go.
]]>By: mmcdonaldhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/838/sen-edward-m-kennedy/comment-page-3/#comment-18908
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:42:54 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18908Why is disagreement refered to as “hatred” now,as I have stated on other pages kennedy did have some good traits,I just don’t think they outweigh his actions AFTER his accident and other not soo good deeds.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:59:40 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18906My Newsweek arrived with a cover picture of a young and handsome Ted Kennedy. Unfortunately, all I see is the face of a man who got away with killing a woman, not reporting it for 10 hrs bec he was obviously drunk from the party, partying into his 50’s and letting his nephew rape a woman. Of course, the cover page went into the trash immediately, fittingly.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:09:35 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18905Hahahahahahahaha!!! These comments are great! All of them. Really. Best thing since neighbors screaming at eachother at a healthcare town hall meeting. Keep it up!
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:06:40 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18904Kiki,

Save your breath.. the ignorants on this blog who spew only hate will never be worth your time and effort. It just proves that hatred is alive and well in America and Americans must refuse to follow their ideas, rhetoric, and just plain amoral beliefs. ( I wonder, how is it, that these people seem to want claim the high moral ground while deriding other beings? Seems contrary to the teachings of all religions, logic, and just plain common sense.) Please refrain from getting in the gutter with your references to the Bush family, it makes you out to be as cheap and as petty as they are.

The limbaughistas here serve only to invigorate moderate, free thinking, and empathetic Americans that the job against hatred is never done. Seems that Ted Kenendy knew this, he fought against it all his life. Civil Rights, Rights for the Disabled, Medicare, Voting Rights, you name it, he fought for ALL the citizens in this country for fairness and all these idiots can talk about is Chappaquiddick. Fairness, justice, and common cause is not their concern, hatred and ignorance is.

Ted Kennedy made mistakes in his life, yes, and no, I do not want to sanctify the man, he does not deserve it,but he never once wavered from his service to working people in this country, never. It seems that many on this blog have very short memories ( hey, what have you done for ME lately? The GOP mantra of today) and seem to believe that over 40 years of dedication to help make life better for the MAJORITY of Americans was worthy of their disdain… I just feel sorry for their lack of compassion, empathy, and just plain common decency.

Keep the hope alive, Kiki….

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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:02:06 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18901Kiki,It has been well documented that there were scrape marks in the carpet on the floor of the Olds,people at the hotel noted he was drunk( and was driving in the opposite direction of Edgartown??)Next you will try to convince me Ted didn’t drink.No I don’t like to see body bags come back from war;but war casualties are different from manslaughter casualties;Using your logic,we should release all convicts as long as they are against the war.
Have I thrown Neil Bush into the arguement?But I guess throwing lower performing family members into the frey is applicable here.Do I listen to Limbaugh ,beck ect..on occasion,but I can form my own opinion.I’ll give you the spellin n grammar thing ,sorry dont like spell check.
Iknow wasn’t Hochi Minh in france or Russia at the time,and I think McNamara should be mentioned in the frey as well.My mother couldn’t agree with you more(as well as the rest of my siblings thank you),i guess there is someone who watches Olberman other than yourself.
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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:40:58 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18898There is nothing I like better than a responding commenter who proves my point(s). #57 – REALLY? Ted’s own statements? And people at the party? REALLY? Because in all the research I have done into this incident, I have never read any comments by ANYONE saying that he was drunk. Could you let me in on your sources? But maybe you are your own source, since you were obviously at the scene that night. You must have been, since you know that this woman’s fingers were “clawing at the floor trying to escape.” If you were close enough to see that, WHY DIDN’T YOU SAVE HER? And while we’re talking about dead bodies, have you had any problems with the thousands of dead bodies coming back in body bags from Irag, or is it just that ONE dead body of Mary Jo Kopechne that bothers you? Yeah, I thought so. That’s the one that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh tell you to be disturbed about. Pavlov’s dogs. (Look it up.) Families (sic) dealings? I know it’s ridiculous to even ask, but have you ever read ANYTHING on the Bush family’s dealings? How about Neil Bush and the Savings and Loans scandal, and his divorce and getting herpes from prostitutes and his ex-wife putting a voodoo hex on him? Not ringing a bell? Mmmmm, I didn’ think so. So again, I suggest that you pick up a few books on the TRUE and ACCURATE history of our nation, and while you’re at it, another one on spelling, grammar and punctuation.
]]>By: Team Americahttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/838/sen-edward-m-kennedy/comment-page-2/#comment-18897
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:35:44 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=838#comment-18897“As to the Cuban missile crisis, I think the avoided war with Russia, would not have gone that way if Nixon had been sitting in the Oval Office, especially with the position Curtis Lemay would have held in that administration.”

Khrushchev wouldn’t have been dumb enough to put missiles in Cuba if Nixon was president.

1) Laura Bush, a person who isn’t elected and had no bearing on policy gets into a car accident when she just turned 17. She doesn’t flee the scene of the accident. She doesn’t cover it up. She takes responsibility through no fault as a good human being.

2) Ted Kennedy gets drunk, is with a woman who isn’t his wife(who was laying in bed pregnant at the time) crashes his car into a gully full of water. Flees the scene of the accident with mary jo drowning, makes up a cover story and never takes responsibilty for his actions. He also gets out of a crime because he is a Kennedy.

The only people who bring up this as a comparison are partisan democrat hacks and are probably the same minority of people who are saddened by his death. The rest of America, say 75-70% have no sympathy for this man and are happy he is out of government.